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"She was on her course--I put her there with my own hands," persisted

Mayo

"Sure! You know your business If this thing was going to be left to

the bunch that know you, you'd go clear But here's what happened in my

case: I had a new man in the wheel-house, here, and he alo with the Pollock Rip Lightship,

and hadlifted And he was steering

my courses to the thinness of a hair, at that! Say, I took a sudden

tued a toad-stabber knife out of his

pocket--one of those regular foot-long knives It had been yawing off

that compass all the way from a point to a point and a half When did

you shift wheel-watch?"

"Before weup the sound?"

"Made Nobska and West Chop to the dot"

"Then perhaps your general izzard inside him Most of them Wall Street fellows do have!" said

the skipper, with sarcas on in the steamboat business that I can't

understand," declared Mayo "It's high up; it hasn't to do with us

chaps, who have to take the kicks Fogg brought a ood explanation to go with